On 25 February 2010 14:01, John Shott <[email protected]> wrote: > SunRay Users and Developers: > > As an old duffer used to having my servers in a nice, secure room > somewhere, I'm struggling to get my arms around newer concepts like SAAS and > Cloud Computing. In our environment of large, shared university research > labs SunRays are particularly nice because of the mobility they offer as > someone moves from station to station in a large lab. We are beginning to > explore what it would take to convert our Java applications to be compatible > with the cloud computing model. If we can do that, we'd also like to be > able to use SunRays and SRSS in a cloud-based environment. > > Is SRSS currently available as a service in the cloud? Or does anyone know > whether it is likely to become available in the not-too-distant future? > When I was at JavaOne last year, Sun was demonstrating that lots of things > were available in the cloud environment .... but I didn't think to ask at > that time whether that included support for SunRays. > > Hi John, I offered this in mid 2007, although the response was reasonably good I quickly found that the problem is the reliability of peoples ADSL connections. This got to such a level that I halted the trial with a view on returning to it at a later date.
The troble is when the VPN collapses the client losses everything - sometimes the Sun Rays were down for an hour or so at a time. It appears general internet was reasonably stable, but UDP/VPN traffic was getting lost at times. I just installed local SRSS servers at their local offices and withdraw the service - great in principle, but just "not quite ready". -- Regards Sean Clarke
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